As I said, 50,000 soldiers were already there. > …until after the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964. With the explicit goal of containing China You are making a

As I said, 50,000 soldiers were already there. > …until after the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964. With the explicit goal of containing China You are making a single phase the whole reason why the US deployed millions of troops to Vietnam, which is patently untrue. I see you would not acknowledge either that China became the aggressor a few years after the US withdrew, and eventually the Chinese got their asses kicked too.